This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
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Wowzers! You get banned for posting sources not sanctioned by the empire apparently. I thought dbzer0 was supposed to be a leftist instance, but they ban just like the lib and zio instances like .world and ShitJustFash?!
I see lib rags spammed all over the feed....
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Yeah, I'm not surprised an anarchist, anti-authoritarian instance like db0 doesn't like pro-Russian sources. You should feel right at home on hexbear or lemmygrad, though!
anti-authoritarian
bans people for wrong-think
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A lot of db0 users are very worried about the paradox of tolerance. They do not tolerate ideas that they consider intolerant, like fascism, zionism, imperialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. Russia Today is considered to be a source of imperialist Russian propaganda.
The paradox of tolerance is complete horse shit. People use it to justify their own intolerance.
Seems like this account has only ever been used to spam news from Kremlin. Not sure what that has to do with leftism
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I see lib rags spammed all over the feed....
Yeah it's maybe not perfect, but pretty sure spamming fox news or whatever would get similarly deleted
YDI
shocking that a kremlin-pilled agitprop tankie wouldn't be adored on an instance of people he spends more time attacking than fascists. good riddance.
People throw around the term "tankie" a lot here, but in this case...
They say "if the shoe fits", but this dude went out and got bespoke combat boots with the optional iron cleats for that premium minority crushing feel.
Also western propaganda. Russia isnt 'taking' anything theyre liberating Ukrainians who have been under the rule of an illegitimate empire installed government since 2014 and have already voiced they want to be closer to russia
You are a legitimate piece of shit. Fucking tankie scum defending imperialism with outright misinformation.
So I was DMed by a user asking me to ban this person, and I didn't just do that. I actually went and checked what they were posting, and it is indeed pro-Russia and alt-right propaganda. I made sure to remove each post individually since ban with removal omits from the modlog, so you can still see what they were banned for.
This ban is 100% correct and will never be revoked. When their instance ban expires I will make sure to ban them again. As I am confident they will not refrain from posting similar articles when their current ban expires.
Can you elaborate on this, because all I can see are the headlines. Clicking on them doesn't load anything and the headlines just seem like factually correct? Like all I see is
The European Union has imposed sanctions against journalists Mackevicius and Klyuchenkov.
propaganda spam
for instance. Doesn't seem alt-right or pro-russia to me. More like anti-EU which is often conflated with being pro-russian from my experience. But the EU has been sanctioning journalists for not reporting in a way they like for various reasons like Hüseyin Doğru for pro-palestinian reporting for instance. Pointing out the EU's censorship is not necessarily pro-russian hence my doubt since all I can see is the headline.
Those are headlines of news articles that have been written by various "news" sites.
I cannot find the first one anywhere, but the second one, titled "Zelensky seeking to ‘punish’ Slovakia for peace aspirations – Fico", is an article on rt.com . RT.com has banned all of Finland from reading its site because in Finland basically everyone would catch its lies, so I cannot read the actual article; I merely found a link to it on a site that has not banned Finns.
But, using rt.com as a source tells enough anyway.
Use Tor to read geoblocked articles.
Yeah, I know that's possible. But I really don't have any need to. I'm not going to bother something like that in order to read rt. I speak Russian well enough that I can read the same news in Russian if I really want to become more stupid.
RT.com has banned all of Finland from reading its site because in Finland basically everyone would catch its lies
what no lol https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/27/european-court-upholds-broadcasting-ban-on-russias-rt
but just because it's from RT doesn't necessarily make it false. I would trust them much more on palestinian reporting than Spiegel or Haaretz for instance. They all have ideological bias you just need to be aware which it is. I'm not gonna get news critical of Ukraine from the west, I gotta go to the east for that and vice versa. It's important to cross-check and verify.
RT's "bias" is that it exists in order to intentionally spread lies.
And also, I was talkung about the website, not a television channel. In Finland, not in France. It's indeed the way around that the Russian sites block Finnish IP addresses, not the other way around.
If it was EU blocking RT's site, you would be unable to access it from anywhere in EU, not only from the country least willing to censor Internet in all.of EU. Rt.com works just fine from Germany and France, because there people know less about the Russia and the stories are believed by many enough people.
In Finland rt.com would just scare Finns into disliking the Russia even more. It's not in the interests of Moscow to let us browse it.
Rt.com works just fine from Germany and France, because there people know less about the Russia and the stories are believed by many enough people.
i'm in germany, rt.com doesn't work from here, I don't know where you got the idea from that RT blocked the entirety of finland because they couldn't cope with the superior finnish intellect but german and french people are just more gullible I guess?? Fucking wild lmfao 🤣
It was an EU order because they need to sweep ukraine's nazi problem under the rug or like provide sources to the contrary?
It's obvious that Ukraine's nazi problem must be solved. I don't know if it makes sense to call it "sweeping under the rug", though. More like "push back within the problem's own borders" would feel like a better wording :)
The fact that neonazi paramilitary organisations like the Azov regiment got folded into the ukranian army proper, and how zelensky's main oppositional candidate zaluzhnyi is a banderite never seem to come up however? Compare with APnews for example.^[Before my edit I falsely linked an article from the "The economic times" (an indian newspaper) as from "The economist": Compare with the economist for example.] Except of course in russian media, because the most powerful propaganda is the one that is true. Which is why I say you gotta sort the wheat from the chaff and also have an all-grain diet.
There is a fascism problem inside free Ukraine, indeed. It's been there since around year 2005 in an increasing strength until year 2014 when it started decreasing, albeit sadly slowly.
It has never reached the levels it has in the Russia, but it was nevertheless very visible when I lived there in 2015 and 2016.
Putin's project of funding fascism in the Russia and in all countries under Russian influence, that he started around year 2005, is horrible indeed! I can understand how the organizations were useful for doing his dirty work for him, but it's horrendous that he chose to take that way.
Of course the fascist organizations in Ukraine lost almost all of their funding when they started fighting against the Russia, but it still takes time for all that to diminish away.
Also, just like you told, it is a success story how Ukraine managed to dilute the right-wing extremism from the nazi troops that saved its ass in 2014. Until around year 2018 there was a big risk of a fascist revolution, because in 2014 the Ukrainian military was nothing but a joke. It was only a tool for the highest officers to get free workforce for building dachas. And a horrible place to serve, causing deaths of servicemen. Basically the same thing as Belarusian military is now in 2026.
And at the same time, the nazi organizations got seriously good in fighting starting from 2014. Ukraine basically didn't have an army at all and the nazis were really interested in doing a coup. Ukraine successfully defused the situation by slowly integrating those organizations in its official military forces. The leadership was forbidden from being openly nazi and an increasing amount of soldiers were without any nazi connections whatsoever.
It is very clear that the leadership of the Azov battalion are still okay with fascism, but they are not able to effectively push for it any longer. And once the war, after all these 12 years, is at last at its end, it can be at last disbanded. Currently they are still the most skilled army unit in Ukraine and without them, Ukraine would risk losing the war to the fascist country. If that happened, the funding of nazi organizations in Ukraine would return and we'd see a nazi problem far bigger than currently – most likely it would reach the same levels as currently on Crimea and Donbas, which are the only parts of Ukraine where far-right violence didn't start getting less common in 2014, but instead increased a lot.
The current situation is weird, because Azov battalion, military unit still led by actual fascists, is keeping Ukraine securely on an anti-fascist path. If they disappear, nazism will become much more commonplace in Ukraine.
If you support the Russia in this war, you are a fascist.
I provided one of the examples: https://lemmy.ml/post/44675222/24621308
That's not what got them banned afaict though? Also I don't see "alt-right" which is a pretty heavy accusation to just level at someone
I think they're banned for similar reasons to why Fox News articles are banned. I agree with your comment above - the source doesn't necessarily make something false. It would be silly for any outlet to post only misinformation. But some sources are worse than others. I wouldn't read any news about Ukraine from either Ukrainian or Russian state-owned sources. They're one sided to the extreme.
Regarding alt right - that might be a stretch, yeah. They're conservative (for example, they're anti-LGBT because it's banned by the law) and telling how're liberating Ukrainian people. But I don't think it's qualified as alt-right.
What did you post out of interest?
Just some RT and tass articles to offset some of the never ending feed of empire sources around here
Only a fool fights imperialism with imperialism.
bro, you're not leftist. the stuff you posted was extreme right.
You are a liberal
Strange that you didn't repost your source(s) here in this thread...